Grinding-machine.



J. LOOSE.

GRINDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED luLYls, 1915.

1,201,318. A Patented oet. 17,1916.

JOHANNES LOOSE, OF STUTTGART-CANNSTATT, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO THE FIRM OF FORTUNAWERKE, SPECIALMASCHINENFABRIK, Gr. M. IB. H., OF STUTTGART- CANNSTATT, GERMANY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

GRINDING-MACHINE. i

Patented Oct. 1?, 1916.

To all who/m t may concern Be it known that I, JOHANNES Loosn, of 3l Karlstrasse, Stuttgart-Cannstatt, in the Kingdom of l/Vurttemberg, German Empire, civil engineer', have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Grinding-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to grinding machines and more especially to the 'particular kind motion have to be stopped and started afresh. Further the bearing serving as a guide for the grinding Wheel spindle during its progressive motion will alternately be nearer to or farther away from the grinding wheel, thus causing the grinding wheel spindle and its bearing to spring more or less, according to its position. According to the present invention these drawbacks are avoided by locating the grinding wheel spindle within a. cylindrical bushing connectecl almost directly to the forward feeding or reversing device, thus making the reversed masses as small as possible, said cylindrical bushing being guided by aid of short guiding surfaces within a sleeve which is longer by at least the distance of the greatest axial displacement of the bushing, so that the distance between the grinding wheel and the spindle support is constant although the bushing is displaced within the bearing.

In the drawings affixed to this specication the preferred form of a grinding machine according to my invention is represented in longitudinal section.

t is the grinding wheel, w is the spindle isV stopped or changed and the great masses in provided with pulley g, b is the cylindrical bushing surrounding the spindle, ball bearings being preferably inserted between the bushing and the spindle.

0 and Z are short cylindrical guide surfaces provided on the bushing and gliding within suitable guiding sleeves e and f of a head stock 7a For axially displacingv the bushing Z), a hand lever in may be provided which is pivotally connected to the bushing Z9 at my and at its lower end is connected to the head stock z, by means of the link 0. Any other suitable means for displacing the bushing b may be employed without going outside of my invention.

' It is easy to see that while the bushing b is being displaced within the guide sleeves e and f, the distancefrom the guide surface c to the grinding wheel will remain constant, so that the elastic yielding of the wheel caused by the grinding pressure will remain equal all through the displacing movement.

It is not imperative to make the guide surfaces of the bushing cylindrical; they might as well be prismatic. The manner in which the spindle is carried within the bushing is equally unimportant and may be altered to suit different working conditions.

I claim In a grinding machine, in combination, a grinding wheel spindle, a bushing inclosing said spindle, means for axially displacing said bushing, guiding surfaces on said bushing, and guiding sleeves for said guiding surfaces, said guiding sleeves being at least as long as the greatest displacement of the said bushing, whereby the length of the unsupported portion of the said bushing beyond the outermost guiding surface is not varied by displacing the said bushing.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.v

Witnesses Ross. THALBAUER, EUGEN SCHLEIGHER.

JOHANNES LOOSE.

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